I'm in the world of DeathNote?

THANK RIVERDALE (specifically Jughead as a character) FOR SOMEHOW GIVING ME THE INSPIRATION TO WRITE STUFF, SO LET'S GOOOOOOOO.

I slowly made my way down the stairways with L at my side, giving him a reassuring smile every time I felt his hand shake in mine. He was terrified but I was making him go down with me when I talked to Light. So terrified, actually, that he made us go down the stairs to prolong our time before having to face Light.

"It's okay, L. When you explain it, I'm sure he'll understand." He gave me a panicked look for a moment until I giggled and corrected myself, "When I explain it." That one clarification calmed him down. 

"It's really not that big of a deal. I mean, it is because judging from your hand you hit him pretty hard, but you have me and the task force to be there for you." I was trying my hardest to calm his nerves.

Finally, we came face-to-face with the door leading to the main room. I squeezed his hand in reassurance and we stepped into the room hand-in-hand. 

"Hey guys." I said casually. Light lifted his head with a slight smile and worried glance until he saw L, and then he hardened his gaze into one of anger. 

"I have an explanation for you guys, and you need to listen to everything that I say before being ridiculous." They hesitantly nodded in my direction as L and I sat down across from them. 

"When L walked into the room Light and I were in this morning, he had no idea what had happened last night. I don't think he even realized where I had gone. All he knew was that I was on the floor with a messed up arm, and Light was reaching to grab me. He had no idea that Light had saved my life and jumped to the incorrect conclusion that Light had hurt me. Before I explained anything, I wanted my shoulder to be fixed, so I couldn't tell him the truth of what happened. I guess that caused him to act irrationally and punch you, Light." I took a breath and glanced around the room. 

L peeked out from his hiding spot behind my shoulder and apologized to Light. I smiled at him softly and grabbed his hand again. 

"As I'm sure you all know by now, even though we haven't officially said it to you guys, that L and I really care about each other, and we're dating. That's why L was furious when he thought that Light hurt me, and acted unusual."

Light piped up from the corner, "Great talk and all, but we need to acknowledge something else."

Everyone in the room turned to look at him. "I'm sure we're all thinking this, but Arashi, we need to talk about how you keep trying to kill yourself. It's not normal and we need to do something about it."

This time, I was the one with wide eyes and shaking hands. L turned to look at me, holding both of my hands and squeezing gently. "Arashi, it's okay." My eyes filled with tears, threatening to spill over the edge. 

He leaned forward and placed a soft kiss on my cheek. "I'm right here with you." 

"Okay...Well, most of it started with my brother. His name was Akai." I started with a shaky breath. I stopped for a minute to collect myself and Matsuda gently encouraged me. "Was?" 

"My brother and I grew up with an abusive father. My mom and my little sister Kako got spared from it, because they were oblivious to what was going on and mindlessly obeyed him. I saw what was going on, and I pushed back. When you understand what's going on in a situation like that, it's hard to mindlessly obey the person hurting and breaking apart your family members. I lashed out back at my dad whenever he decided it was time to 'put me in my place'. Since I always did that, and made my dad angry, I was beaten too." 

Gasps and sympathetic looks were all I got from the room. I didn't want pity, and L knew that. "I'm sure they're just shocked. Continue, they need to know this." He lifted my hand to his lips and kissed my knuckles, giving me a small smile. I knew L didn't like showing this much affection in front of people, so I appreciated the things he was doing for me.

I took a shaky breath before continuing, "To save me from feeling that pain, Akai always stepped in for me, and purposely made my father angry so he would forget about me and take it out on Akai. When my father stopped, and he always did, Akai would wake me up for help, and I always bandaged him up. One night," 

I stopped with a shaky gasp and squeezed L's hand as tightly as I could, looking at my lap. My eyes were filling with tears and I squeezed my eyes shut, inhaling sharply before continuing. 

"One night, I made my father really angry. He was really drunk and didn't ease up on the insults, and when I lashed out he slapped me really hard. When Akai noticed, and saw that I had started bleeding from how hard our father hit me, he went crazy. He took my beating but struggled to get a hit in for me. I was too much of a coward to intervene, and I stood there and watched. Most times, when Akai had lost consciousness, he would stop the punching, and just give up on him. That night, we had pushed my father so far over the edge that he didn't stop, he kept punching as hard as he possibly could. Akai had started heavily bleeding and had stopped breathing. I ran over and my dad started beating me as leaned over Akai and begged him to wake up."

I looked up with a bitter smile, tears streaming down my face. "I begged and I begged until my back was bleeding and my throat was torn, but he never woke up. My father died in the jail cell he deserved to be in. I've always had it bad, and I'm depressed and I want to die. I want to see my brother again, and I want to apologize for being so useless and horrible as a sister. I don't see what's so wrong with that." 

There was silence all around the room as L wrapped his arms around my shoulders and gave me a kiss on the cheek. He turned to face the room. "I'm sure Arashi wants some time alone so I'm going to take her to her room. We can take a break from the case for today, as it's been very...emotional and hard on us." 

My shaking legs almost gave out on me as we climbed the stairs, and L wrapped his arm around me to help me. When we got to my room, I sighed and crawled, still shaking, under the covers.L, without even having to make me ask, slipped under them with me. He wrapped his arms comfortingly around me and pressed whispers of kisses on my neck, telling me he loved me. 

That night, I fell asleep with the most important person in my life cuddling me and telling me he loved me. my last thought before I lost consciousness was that Akai would be happy that I have someone to protect me and love me unconditionally.